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Table 2 PCR and antibody test results of the patient

From: First identification of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in both a biting tick Ixodes nipponensis and a patient in Korea: a case report

Sample collection day

PCR

IFA

ankA

nPCR

groEL

nPCR

ompA

56-kDa

nPCR

SFTS

C-PCR

Orientia tsutsugamushi

Rickettsia

typhi

Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Borrelia burgdorferi

IgG

IgM

IgG

IgM

IgG

IgM

IgG

IgM

2017-05-30

+

–

–

–

1:2048

< 1:16

1:64

< 1:16

< 1:80

< 1:16

< 1:16

< 1:16

2017-06-02

    

1:1024

< 1:16

1:64

< 1:16

    

2017-06-05

–

  

–

    

1:160

1:64

1:16

< 1:16

2017-06-07

    

1:512

< 1:16

1:64

< 1:16

    

2017-06-20

–

  

–

1:256

< 1:16

1:512

< 1:16

1:640

1:64

1:32

< 1:16

2017-06-26

–

  

–

1:512

< 1:16

1:512

< 1:16

1:640

1:256

1:16

< 1:16

2017-07-03

    

1:512

1:16

1:512

< 1:16

1:640

1:64

1:16

WB+

1:16

WB+

2017-07-20

    

1:512

< 1:16

1:512

< 1:16

1:640

1:512

1:32

WB+

1:16

WB+

2017-08-04

    

1:512

< 1:16

1:512

< 1:16

1:640

1:256

1:16

WB+

1:16

WB+

  1. PCR polymerase chain reaction; IFA indirect immunofluorescence assay; nPCR nested PCR; SFTS severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; C-PCR conventional PCR; WB western blot (Positive means more than 7 antigen bands were detected using the Microgen diagnostic kit)
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